Peter Pomerantsev’s “Nothing is True and Everything is Possible” seeks to capture the essence of Putin’s Russia, but by focusing only on the very rich and the very poor, fails to take into account the impact of a politically apathetic middle class

The current state of bilateral relations between Russia and the U.S. may be nothing to laugh about, but somehow throughout the year, comedians from the two nations always found a way to brighten the mood